Balls with tomato sauce

3 servings

45 minutes

The recipe is taken from the book by A. Piruzyan "Armenian Culinary" (1960).

Energy value per serving

• Calories: 175
• Proteins: 9.1g
• Fats: 14.1g
• Carbohydrates: 3.5g

Ingredients

• Beef: 125 g
• Onion: 25 g
• Melted butter: 25 g
• Chicken egg: 0.3 pc
• Tomato puree: 15 ml
• Wheat flour: 5 g
• Wine vinegar: 25 ml
• Salt: to taste
• Ground black pepper: to taste
• Parsley: to taste
• Sugar: to taste
• Ground red pepper: to taste

Cooking steps

1. Separate the beef from the bones. Boil the bones to make broth and strain it.

   Required ingredients:

   • Beef: 125 g

2. Cut the meat into pieces and pass it through the meat grinder twice.

   Required ingredients:

   • Beef: 125 g

3. Add salt, pepper, finely chopped onion, and egg to the minced meat, mix thoroughly and shape into small balls, coat in flour and fry in a pan with oil.

   Required ingredients:

   • Salt:  to taste
   • Ground black pepper:  to taste
   • Onion: 25 g
   • Chicken egg: 0.3 piece
   • Wheat flour: 5 g
   • Melted butter: 25 g

4. Fry the flour until dark brown, dilute with a small amount of broth, mix well, add fried finely chopped onion and tomato puree, sugar, red pepper, wine vinegar and bring to a boil twice.

   Required ingredients:

   • Wheat flour: 5 g
   • Onion: 25 g
   • Tomato puree: 15 ml
   • Sugar:  to taste
   • Ground red pepper:  to taste
   • Wine vinegar: 25 ml

5. Pour the fried balls with the prepared tomato sauce and simmer on low heat for 3-5 minutes.

   Required ingredients:

   • Tomato puree: 15 ml

6. Serve the balls sprinkled with finely chopped parsley.

   Required ingredients:

   • Parsley:  to taste